JOINED VPI& SU:1979
EDUCATION:
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Bachelor's |
University of Alabama |
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Master's |
University of Alabama |
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Doctorate |
Vanderbilt University |
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CURRENT TEACHING INTERESTS:
Deviance
Minority Group Relations
Quantitative Research Methods
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Mental Health and Mental Well Being
Social Structure and Personality
Minority Social Psychology
Sociology of Culture
SELECTED AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
President, Southern Sociological Society, 2004-2005.
Editor, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2000-2004.
Editorial Board, American Sociological Review,
1996-1998.
Research Fellow, National Comorbidity Study,
Institute
for Social Research, University of Michigan, 1992-1994.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Hughes, Michael and Carolyn J. Kroehler. 2007. Inside Sociology, New York: McGraw-Hill.
Hughes, Michael and Carolyn J. Kroehler. 2005.
Sociology: The Core
(7th Edition), New York: McGraw-Hill.
Articles and Chapters:
Hughes, Michael. 2006. “Affect, Meaning, and the Quality of Life.” Social Forces (forthcoming).
Ryan, John, and Michael Hughes. 2006 (Forthcoming). “Breaking the Decision Change: The Fate of Creativity in an Age of Self-Production,” Pp. 239-253 in Michael D. Ayers (Editor), Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture, New York, Peter Lang Publishing.Hughes, Michael, and Steven A. Tuch. 2003. "Gender Differences in Whites' Racial Attitudes: Are Women's Attitudes Really More Favorable." Social Psychology Quarterly 66: 384-401.
Gilman, Stephen E., Susan D. Cochran, Vickie M. Mays, Michael Hughes, David Ostrow, and Ronald C. Kessler. 2001. "Risk of psychiatric disorders among individuals reporting same-sex sexual partners in the National Comorbidity Survey." American Journal of Public Health 91 (June):933-939.
Hughes, Michael. 2000. "Country Music as Impression
Management: A Meditation on Fabricating Authenticity." Poetics 28
(December): 185-205.
Hughes, Michael and Steven A. Tuch.2000. "How Beliefs
About Poverty Influence Racial Policy Attitudes: A Study of Whites,
African
Americans, Hispanics, and Asians in the U.S." In David O. Sears, Jim Sidanius, and Lawrence Babo, eds., Racialized
Politics: Values, Ideology, and Prejudice in American Public Opinion.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Hughes, Michael. 1999. "White Audiences for Black
Music." In Michael Hughes, ed., Readings in Sociology,
(Primis Reader
for Introductory Sociology). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Kessler, Ronald C., Amanda Sonnega, Evelyn Bromet,
Michael Hughes, Christopher B. Nelson, and Naomi Breslau. 1999.
"Epidemiologic Risk Factors for Trauma and PTSD." In Rachel Yehuda, ed.
Psychological Trauma.
Washington D.C. American Psychiatric Press.
Hughes, Michael and Melvin E. Thomas. 1998. "The
Continuing Significance of Race Revisited: A Study of Race, Class and
Quality of
Life in America, 1972 -1996," American
Sociological Review, 63
(December):
785-795.
Ryan, John, Michael Hughes, and James Hawdon. 1998.
Marital status, General Life Satisfaction, and the Welfare State: A
Cross-National Comparison. International
Journal of Comparative
Sociology, 39 (June): 224-236.
Hughes, Michael. 1997. "Symbolic Racism,
Old-Fashioned Racism, and Whites' Opposition to Affirmative Action," in
Steven A. Tuch and Jack K. Martin (eds.) Racial Attitudes in the
1990's: Continuity
and Change. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Tuch, Steven A., and Michael Hughes. 1996. "Whites'
Racial Policy Attitudes," Social
Science Quarterly, 77
(December):1048-1060.
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